The action is due to intensifying force majeure conditions and operational failures experienced by multiple suppliers of raw materials essential to the production of acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) products.
The high-performing resin from a renewable source can be applied by adhesive formulators or designers in furniture, edge banding, electronics, hot melt film, textile lamination, seam tape, footwear, and transportation.
$9.5 million is available for multidisciplinary work to enable the accelerated creation of safe, sustainable, and high-value polymers on a commercial scale.
Platte River Equity announced its portfolio company MFG Chemical, a specialty and custom manufacturer of complex chemistries, has acquired H.P. Polymers.
Chemical distributor Brenntag announced a strategic partnership with Knowde, the digital customer experience platform for the ingredients, polymers, and chemical industry.
Scientists have developed a technique that allows the imaging of polymerization catalysis reactions at single-monomer resolution and, through fluorescent signaling, to differentiate monomers from one another.
The newly developed CREATS (Coupled REaction Approach Toward Super-resolution imaging) allows researchers to image polymerization catalysis reactions at single-monomer resolution and, through fluorescent signaling, to differentiate monomers from one another.